Coombes Valley Massacre?

I came across the following information in the book titled “The Tale of Ipstones” by Rev F. Brighton which throws more light on the origin of the name Ipstones, a small village in the county of Staffordshire, on the outskirts of Sharpcliffe Hall and the Coombes valley. The information is as follows:

The ancient spelling “YPPE” may mean an upper stone or a raised stone; this may refer to the high rocks just above Sharpcliffe drive, or to that curious large rock called Hopestone on the left of the Park road going to Foxt just outside the border of the ecclesiastical parish of Ipstones.

If the village takes its name – “Look Out Stones” from the rocks of Sharcliffe the place may have been an ancient encampment. It is doubtful whether the Celts or early Britons left these parts as the name “Cheddleton” suggests the “Town of the Celts”. It may be in the dim past that the Britons held their camp on the site of Sharpcliffe and the ridge, if we may picture the scene, the Saxons came from the Leek Valley and there would be a terrible battle between the two races in the Coombs Valley.

After a bloody struggle in those days a place was often left desolate and blasted with a bad name, as even today part of the Coombs Valley is called the “Devils Hole”, was this battle the origin of the name? It is possible when the Britons were defeated and the Saxons would climb the Sharpcliffe, burn down and utterly destroy the encampment. The Saxons would not stay at Sharpcliffe as they preferred the plains, not the hills, for their camp. The Saxons may have established their camp on the present site of our village or followed the stream through Belmont or Consul Forge.